Passionate Patriarch
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Many Hollywood actors like to sound off about politics. But few have been on the sharp end of it quite like Donald Sutherland. ‘I was in Yugoslavia when I…
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Dare To Be Different
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A white stag was sighted in the highlands of Scotland a few months ago. The appearance of such a rare creature has been considered from time immemorial an omen in…
Right From The Start
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Learning your place Let’s start at the beginning. It kicks in at a particular developmental stage in childhood, when unfairnesses are felt more keenly possibly than ever again.…
A Fair Cycle
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So why are we being so slow? We can’t blame the weather, as our more northerly European neighbours have grasped the cycling nettle. In most cases we can’t blame…
Black Arts
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Sundsvaal, summer 1990, the lobby of a Swedish hotel. An American lobbyist for the coal and oil industries, a former US government official, sits surrounded by diplomats from OPEC countries.…
Coming Of Age
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The good news is that you no longer have to imagine: ECO – aka Eco Age – has done it for you. And rather beautifully, it must be said. This…
Creative Energy
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It is not an impossible ask. This generation can be exalted, remembered and leave an impact as epoch-making as the Victorians’ with their Industrial Revolution, which lifted millions of…
Going, Going, Gone…
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The world expects several decades of growing supplies of generally affordable oil. Every corporate and ministerial plan is geared to this assumption. Beyond the peak of global oil production the world will face shrinking supplies of increasingly expensive oil. That is a manageable proposition if the peak is several decades away. It is a major problem if the peak is imminent.
